"Living in the Material World" ascended the global music charts on the wings of “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth),” Harrison’s second of three post-Beatles chart-toppers. (I’ll save you the trouble, dear reader. The other two are “My Sweet Lord” in 1970 and “Got My Mind Set on You” in 1987, which marked the last time a former Beatle landed a No. 1 song.) While "Living in the Material World" was rightly feted by music critics after the album’s May 1973 release, in the ensuing years, the long shadows of "All Things Must Pass" have obscured much of Harrison’s solo career, prompting Simon Leng to describe the LP as a “forgotten blockbuster.”
With a deluxe new remix courtesy of engineer Paul Hicks and Harrison’s son Dhani, "Living in the Material World" has finally been burnished for our new millennium. As with the finest box sets, the production team has rendered the original contents with considerable fidelity, affording the recordings with greater definition while being assiduously careful about maintaining the artist’s five-decade-old vision.
